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Resident Evil comes back to scare us once more

1:41pm Saturday 20th October 2012

What Capcom have done with the Resident Evil series is keep together a very strong group of appealing characters right from the start. In Resident Evil 6 you get to play along as some very familiar faces, you don’t get any bigger than having Leon Kennedy and Chris Redfield both playable in the same Resident Evil game!

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A game that can really Make you a Rock Star! Introducing RockSmith

10:07am Thursday 11th October 2012

Rocksmith differs from the traditional rhythm action games as you actually require a real guitar to play the game. No more plastic coloured buttons, when playing the game you will actually being playing guitar.

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The goliath FIFA returns

5:10pm Wednesday 3rd October 2012

The highly anticipated released of the latest title Fifa 13 finally happened last Friday. Fans all over the world flocked to the stores to grab a copy of EA Sports latest masterpiece and in the UK alone the game sold over a million copies in just a couple of days making it the first sports title to do so.

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PES 2013 Scores an equalizer

10:00am Tuesday 25th September 2012

When it comes to premium football games on consoles you have two options, Pro Evolution Soccer (PES) or FIFA.

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Sleeping Dogs brings to the Hong Kong underground to consoles

1:00pm Tuesday 18th September 2012

The game has been top of the sales chart since its release, but its progress to the top hasn’t been as straight forward as it would seem.

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Spec Ops : The Line - A shooter with a great story.

5:00pm Wednesday 5th September 2012

Spec Ops: The Line is one of the latest war games to hit the shelves. Developed by a relatively unknown company called “Yager Development” and published by the massive 2K Games (famous for Mafia, Borderlands and BioShock series) I looked at this game at first I thought to myself “this is just going to be another one of those army games that tries to copy what Call of Duty does by buying into the conflict in Afghanistan and making a game about the modern battles going on in the world today”.

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Dragons Dogma

12:00pm Monday 20th August 2012

Dragon’s Dogma is a hack and slash, button bashing, open world adventure game and is developed and published by Capcom, the makers of the hugely popular Resident Evil franchise. The game is sort of a cross between the Baldur’s Gate and The Elder Scrolls series.

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Saints Row The Third

2:30pm Monday 6th August 2012

Saints Row: The Third was one of the big winter releases last year with high expectations from the fans and a massive promotion campaign pushing the game out for all to see, THQ were really going to have to deliver.

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Tony Hawk's Pro Skater Grinds Back With A New HD Edition

12:20pm Monday 30th July 2012

The PlayStation One classic returns in this polished HD remake of Tony Hawk's Pro Skater available now on Xbox Live and later this year on PlayStation Network.

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Mobile Games to keep you busy this Summer!

3:30pm Tuesday 24th July 2012

This week we have three reviews for some of the most popular games available on mobile. This week we look at Fruit Ninja, Score! and the amazing Draw Something

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